French Men Get Suspended Jail Sentences over Livestreamed Death
The Nice criminal court fined one streamer €5,000 and the other €15,000 after finding them guilty of violence and incitement to hatred.
- On Wednesday, The Nice criminal court handed suspended prison sentences to two French streamers for inflicting violence and humiliation on 46-year-old Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove.
- The incident, which aired on the Australia-based Kick platform, shocked France last summer, prompting investigations by Arcom and Paris Prosecutors into the streaming service.
- Safine Hamadi and Owen Cenazandotti were found guilty of violence and incitement to hatred, though the court acquitted them of abusing Graven's psychological frailty after he told police he consented to the stunts.
- Hamadi received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and €5,000 fine, while Cenazandotti received two years suspended and €15,000, with both banned from social networks for six months. "The conviction is mainly symbolic," Tom Michel, Hamadi's lawyer, said.
- While Prosecutors said Graven's death appeared due to poor health, Australia-based Kick remains under formal investigation with arrest warrants issued for some of its officers.
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A group of French streamers earned from violent videos. Their victim: Raphaël Graven alias Jean Pormanove. He died last year in front of an ongoing camera.
Naruto and Safine, tried for online violence and humiliations prior to the death of Jean Pormanove, were sentenced on Wednesday to suspended prison, a fine and a six-month "digital banishment" by the Nice Correctional Court.
French men get suspended jail sentences over livestreamed death
Two French streamers received suspended jail terms on Wednesday following the death of a man they had subjected to violence and humiliation for several days on his own live video stream, apparently with his consent, a lawyer for one of the accused said.
After the death of the streamer Jean Pormanove, two participants were now convicted in Nice, and the two men were the operators of the channel.
His case impacted and ran rivers of ink last summer. The 'streamer' Jean Pormanove died on August 18 after having been beaten and mistreated live during a broadcast for the Kick platform. That program, which made excesses its main claim, lasted 12 days continuously. Almost a year later, French justice punished the two content creators involved in these physical and verbal vexations with prison sentences on Wednesday.The Nice Court sentenced Fren…
The death of Jean Pormanove caused great dismay in France. Now a court has drawn clear consequences for the parties involved – including social media bans.
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